How we update this catalogue
Where every figure on this site comes from, how often it is refreshed, and what happens when a machine goes out of stock.
The date this catalogue was last updated
The catalogue was last updated on 14 September 2026. Every price and every star figure on this site was written on that day. This is the only page that carries the date, on purpose: a date printed under each of 147 prices becomes wallpaper and stops being read.
Prices move between updates. Where the figure here and the figure at the till disagree, the till is right, and it is the only number that takes your money.
What we refresh, and how often
- Prices. Every machine in the catalogue, on a schedule. A machine whose price has changed shows the new figure at the next update.
- Availability. Also every machine. A machine that is not currently available comes off the site at the next build and returns by itself when it is back. That is what moves the count from one week to the next.
- Ratings. Pooled star figures and rating counts, refreshed with the prices.
- Specifications. Capacities, outputs, dimensions and finishes are checked when a machine changes, not on a clock, because they do not drift.
Why the rating counts look the way they do
A machine sold in four finishes shares one pool of buyer ratings across all four. Adding up the number under every card would count that pool four times, so we count each pool once. That is why the total on this site, 20,240 ratings across 142 pools, is smaller than the sum of the figures you can see, and it is the honest way round.
A card shows a star figure only when its pool holds at least ten ratings. Below that a star figure is noise: one bad morning turns a good machine into a two, and the card would then be saying something the pool cannot support.
What happens when a machine sells out
It leaves the site. We keep it in the catalogue behind the scenes and keep asking about it, so when it comes back into stock it reappears on its shelf without anyone doing anything. That is why a shelf can hold twelve machines one week and fourteen the next.
What a rating on a card actually promises
Output ratings are measured under standard conditions. An ice maker rated at 26 lbs a day is rated with cool inlet water in a cool room. Fill it from a hot tap in a kitchen at thirty degrees and it will make less. An air conditioner rated at 8,000 BTU assumes a sealed window and an eight foot ceiling. We print the rated figure because it is the figure that lets you compare two machines, and we say plainly in the journal what moves a real result away from it.
When we get it wrong
Tell us and we fix the page: hello@theelectactic.com. A wrong figure is the report we act on fastest, because a capacity or a price is what a reader decides on. The rules we write by are set out on our editorial policy page, and how this site is paid for is on the affiliate disclosure page.
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